GERMANY: Audi plots 2020 expansion strategy – Just-auto: Audi will invest EUR24 billion between now and 2020 to expand its production capacity and enlarge its model range from today’s total of 50 models to 60. The company sold a record 1.74m cars around the world in 2014 and has high hopes of increasing that again in 2015.

JAPAN: Toyota I-Road to start Tokyo trial – Just-auto: The Toyota i-Road micro-mobility vehicle is to enter a new car-sharing programme in central Tokyo in April. The electric three-wheeled vehicle is already being trialled as part of a co-ordinated public transport scheme (the i-Road providing ‘last mile mobility’) in Grenoble, France and has also been trialled in Toyota City.